Baoyan Li
Email: liby@peer.caltech.edu

Education:
-Ph.D., Mathematics, Southern Methodist University.
-M.S., Mathematics, Southern Methodist University.
-Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, Tsinghua University, China.
-B.S., Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, China.

Research Interests:
Dr. Li's research interests are developing novel numerical methods, parallel computation algorithms, and unstructured grid techniques to solve non-linear partial differential equations, applying newly developed modeling and computation techniques in petroleum reservoir simulation. Her special interest lies in developing new concepts, design of experiment methodologies, and response surface methodologies, applying them to understand and quantify uncertainty in reservoir performance forecast and history matching, and providing scientific and technique bases for decision makers of petroleum companies to estimate economical rate of return and reduce risks in investments of oil field developments.

Selected Publications:

-B. Li and F. Friedman, Novel multiple resolution design of experiment/response surface methodology for uncertainty analysis of reservoir simulation forecasts, SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium, held in Woodlands, Texas, U.S.A., 31 Jan. - 2 Feb. 2005, in press.

-B. Li and F. Friedman, A Novel Response Surface Methodology Based on 'Amplitude Factor' Analysis for Modeling Non-linear Responses Caused by Both Reservoir and Controllable Factors, SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition held in Dallas, Texas, U.S.A., 9-12 October 2005, submitted.

-B. Li, Z. Chen, and G. Huan, Comparison of solution schemes for black oil reservoir simulations with unstructured grids, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 193 (2004), 319-355.

-B. Li, Z. Chen, and G. Huan, Control volume function approximation methods and their applications to modeling porous media flow II: The black oil model, Elsevier Science, Advances in Water Resources, 27 (2004), 99-120.

-B. Li, Z. Chen, and G. Huan, Control volume function approximation methods and their applications to modeling porous media flow I: The two-phase flow, Elsevier Science, Advances in Water Resources, 26 (2003), 435-444.

-H. Chen, Z. Chen, and B. Li, The hp-version of Eulerin-Lagrangian mixed discontinuous finite element methods for advection-diffusion problems, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Science, 53 (2003), 3385-3411.

-H. Chen, Z. Chen, and B. Li, Numerical study of the hp version of mixed discontinuous finite element methods for reaction-diffusion problems: the 1D case, Numerical Methods for Partial differential Equations, Numerical Methods for PDEs 19 (2003), 525-553.

-B. Li, Z. Chen, G. Huan, The sequential method for the black oil reservoir simulation on unstructured grids, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 192 , Issue 1 (November 2003), 36-72.

-B. Li, Z. Chen, and G. Huan, Modeling horizontal wells with the CVFA method in black oil reservoir simulations, Current Trends in Scientific Computing, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 329, Z. Chen, R. Glowinski, and K. Li, eds., American Mathematical Society, 2003, 209-236.

-Z. Chen, J. Liu, R.E. Ewing, G. Huan, B. Li, and Z. Wang, Parallel computing in the black oil model, Current Trends in Scientific Computing, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 329, Z. Chen, R. Glowinski, and K. Li, eds., American Mathematical Society, 2003, 253-262.

-B. Li, Z. Chen, and G. Huan, Modeling horizontal wells using hybrid grids in reservoir simulation, Fluid Flows and Transport in Porous Media, Mathematical and Numerical Treatment, Contemporary Mathematics, Vol. 295, Z. Chen and R. E. Ewing, eds., AMS, 2002, 327-342.

-B. Li and Y. Ma, Reservoir thermal recovery simulation on parallel computers, Proceedings of Numerical Treatment of Multiphase Flows in Porous Media, Beijing, China 1999, 195-207.

-B. Li and Z. Luo, Study on non-minimum phase reactor system, Elsevier Science, Nuclear Engineering and Design, 154 (1995), 211-217.

-B. Li and Z. Luo, There exists non-Gaussian noises in a reactor, Chinese Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol.14, No.2 (1994), 172-174. o Z. Gao, B. Li, and Z. Jiang, Accident analysis of 10MW high temperature gas-cooled test reactor, Chinese Nuclear Science and Engineering (special issue), Vol. 13, No.4 (1993), 77-89.

-B. Li, Z. Gao, and Z. Jiang, Steady State Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of 10MW High Temperature Gas-Cooled Test Reactor, Chinese Nuclear Science and Engineering (special issue), Vol. 13, No.4 (1993), 69-74.

-B. Li and Z. Luo, Generation of zero off-set vertical seismic profile by computers, Oil Geophysical Prospecting (China), Vol. 24, No.1, 1989, 30-34.